The New Evangelicals : Making Room for a Wider, Wilder Faith

A growing movement of disenchanted Christians is reclaiming and revitalizing their faith. This is their story. Maybe it's yours, too.

In this stirring and deeply personal book, Tim Whitaker shares his story of founding The New Evangelicals, a digital-first faith community that embraces questions, doubts, and curiosity. Together they are cultivating an expansive evangelical movement where a wider, wilder faith is flourishing.

Growing up, Tim felt at home in conservative spaces. But as a young adult, he began to notice troubling differences between his church's actions and Jesus's teachings. Tim started asking questions that unsettled his church family, and he was eventually asked to leave their fellowship. Brokenhearted but undeterred, Tim sought a deeper understanding of his faith, church history, and theology. The more he learned, the more he understood the importance of supporting people whom the evangelical movement disenfranchised, working toward accountability and systemic change within the church, and exploring the full depth and breadth of the Christian tradition.

Animated by these discoveries, Tim created The New Evangelicals an online platform that has grown into a life-giving community for tens of thousands of people faithfully wrestling with hypocrisy and dysfunction in the church. Hard questions are sacred here. Together, The New Evangelicals seek to understand and practice a faith that's rooted in Christian tradition and embraces all who want to pursue the way of Jesus.

This book is your invitation to join this wild fellowship. There's room for your story, your questions, your anger, your hurt, and your hope here. There's room for you here.

A growing movement of disenchanted Christians is reclaiming and revitalizing their faith. This is their story. Maybe it’s yours, too.

In this stirring and deeply personal book, Tim Whitaker shares his story of founding The New Evangelicals, a digital-first faith community that embraces questions, doubts, and curiosity. Together they are cultivating an expansive evangelical movement where a wider, wilder faith is flourishing.

Growing up, Tim felt at home in conservative spaces. But as a young adult, he began to notice troubling differences between his church’s actions and Jesus’s teachings. Tim started asking questions that unsettled his church family, and he was eventually asked to leave their fellowship. Brokenhearted but undeterred, Tim sought a deeper understanding of his faith, church history, and theology. The more he learned, the more he understood the importance of supporting people whom the evangelical movement disenfranchised, working toward accountability and systemic change within the church, and exploring the full depth and breadth of the Christian tradition.

Animated by these discoveries, Tim created The New Evangelicals— an online platform that has grown into a life-giving community for tens of thousands of people faithfully wrestling with hypocrisy and dysfunction in the church. Hard questions are sacred here. Together, The New Evangelicals seek to understand and practice a faith that’s rooted in Christian tradition and embraces all who want to pursue the way of Jesus.

This book is your invitation to join this wild fellowship. There’s room for your story, your questions, your anger, your hurt, and your hope here. There’s room for you here.